Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London. Questioning and re-imagining the Western’s portrayal of the “Vanishing Frontier” , the film extends the metaphor to the material and psychological conditions of a present day city increasingly dominated by volatile financial speculations and private interests.
Directed by Anja Kirschner, David Panos
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Cast
Floyd
The Man with No Name
Claudette Bonney
Marnie
Darren Matthews
Turnwood
Robin Laine
Dr. Harwell Carver
John Barker
JB
Jessica Rattigan
Jess
Graham Morris Almond
Judah
Andrew Westcott
Benton
Neil Burrows
Surveyors' Assistant
Norman Barrow
Man on Prairie
Robin Freeman
Dead Man / Masked Man
Cameron Bain
Masked Man
Max Reeves
Man in Forest
Marlowe Chan-Reeves
Boy in Forest
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